Should I even bother with Stanford

AroundHere
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:01:13 +0000

My advice from post 3 stays the same. The only remedy for junior year grades is recovery first term senior year, which means skipping ED for reach schools. An ACT retake with a higher score would help a lot, too.

OP is “good but not great” – he could get a number of EA and rolling acceptances this fall that an ED to a high reach school would foreclose. The ED pool seems like better chances, but it’s really a self-selecting pool of solid applicants. In borderline cases, it’s too easy for adcoms to say, meh, we can find plenty of kids with B’s in the next round.

If the goal is a lot of good choices come March, ED to single a high reach school is not the way for this person to go.